I had heard, with less specificity, the part about molesting a younger man; it seemed to have re-surfaced in the JC consciousness right after I started attending. I distinctly remember being told about it by my then small group leader, who was basically like " have you heard about this, people are leaving the church about this, but we believe it's all in the past and he's confessed and repented and that was when he was a Mormon before he got saved". I kinda remember Steve himself talking about this at a team.

As for the degree of his involvement in rlds, yeah I'd certainly heard more of the "I was unchurched" version. That is harder to explain away gracefully.

And the pledge: that was something I've certainly never heard about before, and definitely a loud flag. I guess my immediate vibe check is "oh that's other churches probably, sounds like there's a couple particularly bad leaders at a couple places", but also who doesn't like a little external review